[gnso-rds-pdp-wg] @EXT: RE: Use cases: Fundamental, Incidental, and Theoretical

[Stephanie Perrin]

Thanks for making this point.  One of the risks to law abiding end 
users, who are not checking their domain registrations every day like 
big corporations do, is that identity theft will surely follow greater 
accuracy requirements.  Since many governments have failed to take 
ownership of the problem of ID theft (I can speak knowledgeably for 
Canada, but plenty of international work on this topic leads me to 
believe the matter is falling between stools elsewhere) we need to focus 
on this genuine risk to end users. Not much written about it, do we have 
a document we can add to our list so that we can digest a potential 
requirement?

regards

Stephanie Perrin


On 2016-08-04 8:59, Mounier, Grégory wrote:
> Accurate and reliable WHOIS data helps crime attribution and can save precious investigation time (you can rule out wrong investigative leads).
> It raises the bar and makes it more difficult for criminals to abuse domain names. It pushes them to resort to more complex techniques such as ID theft to register domains for malicious purposes.
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> In short, for LEA WHOIS is certainly not the silver bullet to attribute crime on line but it is an essential tool in the tool box of law enforcement.
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> Best,
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> Greg
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